Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable
- to rebuff; to refuse; to turn down
- to evade; to dodge (out of the way)
- truly; indeed; severely; harshly
- suddenly
- to obstruct; to block
- sound; noise
- deep; profound
- to push; to cut; to refuse; to reject; to decline; to shirk (responsibility); to put off; to delay; to push forward; to nominate; to elect; massage
- to guard against
- to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
- by means of; through; with the help of
- window; CL:個|个[ge4],扇[shan4]
- pitch-dark (idiom)
- to feel about; to grope about; to fumble; to do things slowly
- to make up one's mind
- (interj) boo hoo
- to terrify
- the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket; lapel
- to pass through; to traverse; to cross
- empty; vacuous; nothing; vacant; in vain; all for nothing; air-to-air (missile)
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to knead; to massage; to rub
- full of; brimming with; very full; permeated
- to resent; to harbor a grudge against; to loathe; resentment; rancor
- (onom.) gentle laughter; chuckle
- (bound form) to scold; to expel breath; (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated); interjection of surprise
- teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor; CL:位[wei4]
- calm; unperturbed; cool
- exploratory; tentative
- to rant and rave; to be scared, upset (Beijing dialect)
- stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- unceasing; uninterrupted; continuous; constant
- to roll over and over (of billows or clouds)
- will; shall; to be going to
- eyeball; fig. the apple of one's eye (i.e. favorite person)